Ukraine International Airlines PJSC, often shortended to UIA, is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Ukraine, with head office in Kiev and main hub at Kiev's Boryspil International Airport. It operates domestic and international passenger flights and cargo services to Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Canada, and Asia.
The airline was established on 1 October 1992 and started operations on 25 November 1992 with a Kiev-London flight. It was one of the first "joint ventures with foreign capital" in Ukraine and the first airline in the former Soviet Union to use new Boeing 737-400 aircraft. The founding shareholders were the Ukrainian Association of Civil Aviation and Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA), an Irish aircraft-leasing company. In 1996, Austrian Airlines and Swissair became shareholders, investing $9 million USD in new equity.
The airline began cargo operations with a Boeing 737-200 aircraft on 13 November 1994 to London and Amsterdam.
Livery
Embraer ERJ-190LR (ERJ-190-100 LR), registration UR-EME, built 2013, serial number 19000614 Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 10 July 2016
